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Convective Overshooting: Physical Properties and Seismic Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J.-P. Zahn
J.-P. Zahn*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France

Abstract

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We review briefly the different prescriptions which have been proposed to predict the extent of convective penetration (or overshoot) in stellar interiors, and we confront them with the results of numerical simulations and with helioseismic data. It appears that the penetrative motions are structured in plumes, and that thermal diffusion plays an important role in controlling the temperature stratification in the stable domain. The most recent high-resolution simulations suggest that these plumes are less space-filling than thought before, and that they are therefore less efficient in establishing an adiabatic temperature profile. This property is compatible with the solar profiles obtained through acoustic sounding.

Type
Part 1.1. Theoretical Aspects
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 185: Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as Probes of Stellar Physics , 2002 , pp. 58 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002

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